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by tomasien 13y ago
I'm not sure if you use Facebook, but on Facebook there is a constant wave of quotes mis-attributed to Einstein and Thomas Jefferson. It's really interesting, they all get 10000's of shares. Somebody somewhere (or just the cr
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by tomasien 13y ago
Came here to write "Airbnb itself described itself as "Ebay for space" - it's extremely relevant. It's just a rhetorical device to help someone understand a complex issue, it's rarely if ever how you actually c
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by tomasien 13y ago
My buddy just made this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unworthy/eboeobmfo... to do the same for Upworthy and Facebok. It's reifying my desire to finish a Chrome extension I made a while ago th
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by tomasien 13y ago
Thanks for the advice, I think that's what I'm going to end up doing. Your point about him going to the friend is apt: it would just be too confrontational for me to tell him, but I don't mind if he knows the reason.
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Ask HN: how do you tell an investor you don't want them to invest?
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by tomasien 13y ago
I'm with you - but here's something that you may be overlooking: 1. New banks and new kinds of banks are forming every day with full rights and accreditations 2. You may not be a bank, but banks have APIs and methods of partnerin
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by tomasien 13y ago
The good news is, crypto isn't the only thing that can do that - banks already do it all the time! That's what I'm saying - this has shown a demand for what you just talked about, not Bitcoin in general (which, of course, has
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by tomasien 13y ago
Always a good idea not to panic at Bitcoin news, unless you have a lot of your personal equity tied up in it - the revolution has already happened, the message calling for a feeless (although BTC has lots of fees associated with it), decent
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by tomasien 13y ago
SEEKING WORK built iOS apps with over 100,000 downloads including Coffitivity.com and wehighfive.com. I can do some Android stuff too, and am also extremely adept with HMTL/CSS/JS-CS (see shockoedenim.com for a nice finished produ
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by tomasien 13y ago
You can! Just hit "continue without timer" and le poof!
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by tomasien 13y ago
I make Coffitivity.com and our Mac App is a menu bar app, and people love it. I'm not here to talk about that - we've never had a complaint about where it lives, where it lives is (as far as we can tell) is flawless in the menu ba
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by tomasien 13y ago
It 100% depends on the use case, if there is a ton of interactivity in your app then native is far better. If your app is primarily informational, HTML5 is generally easier for most folks. Hybrid approaches can be nice: build the interactiv
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by tomasien 13y ago
Whoa - is that Aaron Swartz? What an interesting answer.
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by tomasien 13y ago
"You have to have something to sell" - so true. One of my side projects, coffitivity.com, had millions of of users and was a Time Magazine top 50 website of 2013, but it wasn't until we made something to sell (our apps, which
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by tomasien 13y ago
I posted this on Twitter this morning, but watch http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin#q=bitcoin&cmp... and the chart in this post carefully if you bought Bitcoin speculatively (ie, not because you actuall
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by tomasien 13y ago
If you're really done, don't listen to the people saying "don't give up" - give up, and get back on your feet, whatever that takes. Then, get back on the horse when and if you're ready - I just came off a year
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by tomasien 13y ago
I understand that, and I'm trying to be as general as possible: paying the bills isn't part of your world view, what "paying the bills mean" is shaped and reified BY your worldview and goals. That's all I'm say
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by tomasien 13y ago
Jefferson and Einstein, never trust a quote attributed to them!
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by tomasien 13y ago
I don't think "and of course, I also have to pay the bills" is an instructive part of anyone's life mantra. "The bills" are whatever you decide they're going to be - there's a very low fixed cost to
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by tomasien 13y ago
It was just because Thomas Jefferson said it and Joe Harris goes to the University he founded, it's just bizarre that I saw it 2 times in less than 10 seconds.
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by tomasien 13y ago
The startups I work on have that as a top level goal, absolutely and 100% - as a person, you have to focus on and reward the process as much as the potential result, or it won't work. Paul Singh is fond of saying "we always celebr
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by tomasien 13y ago
Changing the world doesn't mean changing EVERYTHING about the world, or the entire world, just a part of it. I want to make huge changes, but you also have to find a level of satisfaction in making smaller changes
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by tomasien 13y ago
It keeps me up at night that you could work your entire life in startups, do everything right and even work on good ideas, and you could still never really succeed. Then I realize that success (in terms of an exit or something similar) can&
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by tomasien 13y ago
Bizarre - the last link I was on was a random ESPN quiz with UVa star Joe Harris in which that quote was one of the questions. (I realize this is a pretty meaningless and useless comment, but seeing this quote 2 times in less than 10 second
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by tomasien 13y ago
Greebs is easier to use and clean, doesn't get warm, and is designed to fit any bottle perfectly. Plus, using a socket means you don't have that socket to use anymore! Most importantly, Greebs is going to make a whole line of smok
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by tomasien 13y ago
Having done a startup has significantly increased my job opportunities, in fact took them from roughly 0 to roughly I could have whatever job I want in my field any time. In the United States, things are incredibly different from Japan, you
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by tomasien 13y ago
It's like Tamagachi for the iPhone, yes? I don't remember exactly how that fad went down, was it everyone who was into it or was it just kids? I think that'd be a good trend to explore for insights.
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by tomasien 13y ago
I was thinking about how memory must work to allow "Undo" on desktop apps earlier today, and realizing how different that is as it pertains to the web. Undo is amazing, it's a life saver - it's probably literally saved m
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by tomasien 13y ago
No, it's a haters opinion. Being a hater doesn't make you a terrible person or mean you can't or shouldn't be allowed to have opinions, it just means you're a hater and your opinions should be ignored.
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by tomasien 13y ago
Skepticism is different from hating, absolutely, but the user didn't say they were skeptical - they said there was "no way". That's hating and you have to ignore it - skepticism and critical feedback you value, treasure,

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